Quotes About Expression

Indifference to the fine arts comes close to barbarism.

It is what is painted between the outlines that makes the difference between merely competent painting and really meaningful art.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood.

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.

Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.

Art has got nothing to do with taste.

If a woman decides she likes me, it would behoove her to take into consideration that my art has had a strong influence on the type of person I am.

Good new art may not look like art. Inspiration doesn't follow style, it creates it.

The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

Stage performing is a dying art form.

If it [dabbling in art] didn't amuse me, I beg you to believe that I wouldn't do it.

The consolation of art comes in many forms... For some it is making, for others it is having.

I started thinking what could happen with my art and I realized that the biggest thing that could is that it winds up in a museum. It's like finding a rare animal and putting it in the zoo.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

I want to be free... free to develop my art.

There is nothing ugly in art except that which is without character, that is to say, that which offers no outer or inner truth.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.

Dance is an art, so day by day, it's growing and there are new things that can be done.

A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other.